Engineering Research Associates - Revision history

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'''Engineering Research Associates''' (often given as the acronym, '''ERA'''), an early computer company, stated from a team set up the U.S. Navy early in World War II to build devices to help in cryptanalysis of both Japanese and German ciphers. After the war, ERA was set up to keep the team together, and operating. ERA was sold to [[Remington Rand]] in 1952.

Among their products were the famous [[ERA 1103]].

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==Further reading==

* Arthur L. Norberg, ''Computers and Commerce: A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, Engineering Research Associates, and Remington Rand, 1946-1957'', MIT Press, Cambridge, 2005
* Charles J. Murray, ''The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer'', John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1997 - the first several chapters cover ERA
* The Staff of Engineering Research Associates, Inc., ''High Speed Computing Devices'', McGraw-Hill, New York, 1950

==External links==

* [http://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/era.magnetic-storage-systems.ca1958.102646316.pdf ERA Magnetic Storage Systems]
* [http://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/era.1101.1951.102646300.pdf Introducing the ERA 1101]
* [http://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/era.computation-center.1950.102646301.pdf The ERA Computation Center] - from shortly after their purchase by Remington Rand

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−	'''Engineering Research Associates''' (often given as the acronym, '''ERA'''), an early computer company, ~~stated~~ from a team set up the U.S. Navy early in World War II to build devices to help in cryptanalysis of both Japanese and German ciphers. After the war, ERA was set up to keep the team together, and operating. ERA, in need of capital for expansion, was sold to [[Remington Rand]] in 1952, and became part (in name, but not, initially, in organization - a source of many troubles) of the newly-named [[Remington Rand Univac]] (and successors).	+	'''Engineering Research Associates''' (often given as the acronym, '''ERA'''), an early computer company, started from a team set up the U.S. Navy early in World War II to build devices to help in cryptanalysis of both Japanese and German ciphers. After the war, ERA was set up to keep the team together, and operating. ERA, in need of capital for expansion, was sold to [[Remington Rand]] in 1952, and became part (in name, but not, initially, in organization - a source of many troubles) of the newly-named [[Remington Rand Univac]] (and successors).

	Among their products were the famous [[ERA 1101]] and [[ERA 1103]].		Among their products were the famous [[ERA 1101]] and [[ERA 1103]].

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 * [https://vipclubmn.org/ VIP Club - Information Technology (IT) Pioneers] - contains a wealth of ERA-related content
 ** George A. Champine, [https://vipclubmn.org/Articles/TheFirstComputerCompany.pdf ''The First Computer Company''] - chapter 3 of a planned book, ''Sperry Univac - The First Computer Company'' (which, sadly, seems never to have appeared); covers, in detail, ERA's formation, and the 1101, 1103, etc
 * [http://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/era.magnetic-storage-systems.ca1958.102646316.pdf ERA Magnetic Storage Systems]
 * [http://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/era.1101.1951.102646300.pdf Introducing the ERA 1101]

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-'''Engineering Research Associates''' (often given as the acronym, '''ERA'''), an early computer company, stated from a team set up the U.S. Navy early in World War II to build devices to help in cryptanalysis of both Japanese and German ciphers. After the war, ERA was set up to keep the team together, and operating. ERA was sold to [[Remington Rand]] in 1952.
+'''Engineering Research Associates''' (often given as the acronym, '''ERA'''), an early computer company, stated from a team set up the U.S. Navy early in World War II to build devices to help in cryptanalysis of both Japanese and German ciphers. After the war, ERA was set up to keep the team together, and operating. ERA, in need of capital for expansion, was sold to [[Remington Rand]] in 1952, and became part (in name, but not, initially, in organization - a source of many troubles) of the newly-named [[Remington Rand Univac]] (and successors).
-Among their products were the famous [[ERA 1103]].
+Among their products were the famous [[ERA 1101]] and [[ERA 1103]].
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 * Arthur L. Norberg, ''Computers and Commerce: A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, Engineering Research Associates, and Remington Rand, 1946-1957'', MIT Press, Cambridge, 2005
 * Charles J. Murray, ''The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer'', John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1997 - the first several chapters cover ERA
-* The Staff of Engineering Research Associates, Inc., ''High Speed Computing Devices'', McGraw-Hill, New York, 1950
+* The Staff of Engineering Research Associates, Inc., [https://vipclubmn.org/BitsBakUp/ERA%20High%20Speed%20Computing%20Devices%20Book%20(1950).pdf ''High Speed Computing Devices''], McGraw-Hill, New York, 1950 - one of the very first books ever published about [[electronic]] computing [[hardware]] (when it was all [[vacuum tube]]-based, of course)
 ==External links==
 * [http://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/era.magnetic-storage-systems.ca1958.102646316.pdf ERA Magnetic Storage Systems]
 * [http://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/era.1101.1951.102646300.pdf Introducing the ERA 1101]